The Coffee Bean Menu

I’m thinking you would agree that it is sometimes difficult to find that perfect coffee bean.

One that will fill your lungs with that sweet smell from the mornings grind. One that passes your lips and takes you from I Can’t Open My Eyes, to I’m Ready To Conquer the World.

Here at The Coffee Bean Menu we promise to feature coffee beans that can do just that!

On our website we feature only the best coffee beans. And, we provide relevant information about finding, purchasing, brewing, tasting, relaying history, and recommending basically everything you need to know about the very best coffee beans!

That’s Really the Pits… No Really!

This may be hard to believe; especially when considering the fact that we usually see them and refer to them as beans, but believe it or not, coffee beans are really the pits of coffee cherries.

When shed from the cherry-like casing, the coffee beans emerge as what are known as green coffee beans, fully raw and unroasted.

Why is this important?

These raw Coffee Bean Menu treats have many nutrients and proteins that are wonderful for the human body.

For example, the raw unroasted beans are chock full of carbohydrates that contribute to the signature aroma that comes with any wonderful cup of coffee.

In addition, that usual bitter taste that comes alongside that warm cup is a result of the proteins and amino acids in the raw green coffee beans.

Here’s the deal:

Since you probably got to this page looking for great coffee beans, we won’t delay any further.

For your viewing pleasure (and we expect, your drinking pleasure), please find on the Coffee Bean Menu what we believe to be the best tasting coffee beans to be found.

The reviews back us up!!

Perfect Coffee | HowCast – How to Use a French Press

In our Jaggerware family, we have recently rediscovered the French Press. The mom in our family had used a French Press many years ago. But, she had really gotten away from using it. She had forgotten how really good coffee can be that is prepared correctly in a French Press.

With this recent rediscovery, some of the medium/dark to dark roast coffee drinkers in our family found that when the French Press is used correctly, the results are heavenly. The flavor is richer and stronger.

Why is the important?

With the French Press, stronger doesn’t equate to the typical increase in bitterness you get from going stronger.

Here at The Coffee Bean Menu our expert view is that French Press produces coffee that is absolutely wonderful. So, the only thing left to do is to give you some good easy to follow instructions on how to use your French Press.

French Press the HowCast Way

Here’s the Deal:

We at Jaggerware LLC just love the folks at HowCast. As usual they have expertly captured not only how easy it is to use the French Press. But, have laid out each of the steps so they are incredibly easy to follow.

The Story is:

In this video, they describe a starting 30 second period to get the flavors going. For those on the go, this extra step can make this process a little to “hands on”.

The Jaggerware family has a slight twist to this by just putting all the water in and combining the separate 30 second and 3:30 minute periods into a solid 4 minutes.

In our opinion, this doesn’t cause any loss of flavor and makes the process much easier to follow since you eliminate a “monitoring” step. This gives you extra time in the morning to finish that makeup, or organize your things for the day.

Either way works!

Tell us your preference in the comments below, or about your own variation of using the French Press. Here is the HowCast way. We find this video to be very well put together. Enjoy!!

What You Need to Know About Roasting

Coffee beans can come in various levels of roasts. In general coffee beans roast to the following basic levels:

Unroasted

Light

Medium

Dark

Within each of those “levels”, there are several “sub-categories”. Different temperatures, and amounts of bean cracking define the different roasting levels.

And, these sub-categories often go by special names like City, Full City, Italian or French (among others).

What’s the full story?

This Wikipedia page does a great job of defining the roasting characteristics that exist. And, the Wiki even breaks these roast level into additional sub-categories.

At The Coffee Bean Menu, we’ve researched and found the best coffee beans at each roasting level. We hope you’ll agree. If not, let us know in the comments about a better coffee bean and we’ll review it!

Unroasted

When a bean has not been roasted at all, it is considered “unroasted”.

End users order coffee beans this way to be able to do their own roasting.

Medium Roast

A large number of coffee drinkers prefer a “medium” amount of roasting. This is a very popular category.

Beans in this category are roasted at a level in between “light” and “dark”. Often coffee drinkers in this category are “power” drinkers that consume many cups a day.

A drinker that is drawn to the medium roast is often looking for a good smooth caffeine delivery mechanism. They want a drink that doesn’t overwhelm with strong dark roast flavor, or a light “more bean like” flavor.

Large numbers of people use coffee beans with this level of roasting.

This Equal Exchange coffee bean is the top bean we found in this category. Read up on some other wonderful Medium Coffee Beans in this article.

Dark Roast

A dark roast coffee bean is is often for the long term serious coffee drinker.

You don’t typically find coffee newbies going for the darker roasts.

Those partakers of the dark roast typically have slowly migrated from lighter roasts through medium and on to dark.

This is because the darker you get, the stronger the flavor. And, if you ask the “less dark” drinkers, the more bitter the taste gets.

The dark roast is typically an acquired taste from years of stepping up their coffee “game”.

The dark roasts cook at higher temperatures and for a long time. The beans are cooked past the first and second crack of the bean. This often releases the internal coffee bean oils.

The best dark roast bean that we found was this Kicking Horse Coffee brand. To read about all of the Best Dark Roast Coffee Beans that floated to the top of our lists, follow your reading onto this article.

Coarse Grind

It involved only grinding the beans a few seconds with a coffee bean grinder so that the pieces of the beans that remain are still large chunks of the beans.

This kind of grind is the most useful for French Press coffee brewing, vacuum coffee pot brewing, cold brewing, and percolator brewing.

The coarse grind allows for the flavor of the coffee beans to remain intact while keeping them big enough to now flow through the filter plunger of the French Press.

For cold brewing, the coarse grind exposes the most surface area of bean grinds to the water while the grinds soak in the water during the cold brewing process.

When using the vacuum pot brewing process, the coarse grind allows for the coffee to extract all of the flavors out of the beans while the grinds are too big to pass through the filter used.

For percolator brewing, the coarse ground coffee grounds for the same reason that they are useful for both vacuum pot brewing and French press brewing. The coarse grinds allow for the most surface area to come into contact with the water. This extracts the most flavor from them without allowing them to pass through the filters of the coffeemakers.

Espresso machines that utilize a pump and steam use this grind of coffee beans to create the delectable shot of espresso.

The extra fine grind saturates for a long time to brew the espresso.

In addition, this grind is fine enough to allow water to force through the hockey puck of grinds. But, also fine enough to saturate the espresso with the fantastic flavor that you know and love.

These extra fine coffee grounds are also known as the Turkish grind.

Turkish coffee uses this type of grind. Turkish coffee is usually brewed by boiling the extra fine grounds with water and sugar. It is served in small cups where the grounds settle. Turkish coffee drinkers enjoy the grounds that settle in the small cups they drink from.

Pod Brewing

At The Coffee Bean Menu, we’ve branched out from traditional beans to pod based brewing.

We waited a long time to make that change. Not everyone here at The Coffee Bean Menu is on board with this because this strays away from a strictly coffee bean site.

But, when you see just how many people just don’t have the time to do what it takes to brew a truly exquisite cup using very fresh coffee beans, it just doesn’t make sense to ignore that many people.

Also, these machines are getting better and better at delivering a quality cup. Some might even say is delivers a better cup because it’s basically machine driven. So, no human error involved.

Anyway, we are very proud of our first article into this niche. Our article on the Best Keurig Coffee Maker goes over 10,000 words in depth into the subject. You won’t find many other articles with this much information. And, our Bad Ass Keurig Comparison table makes your shopping as easy as it can be.

Closing Thoughts and Ponderings

From goats to grinds, we hope you will enjoy exploring our Coffee Bean Menu website. We covered different types of roasts that might please your palette. And, discovered some different ways to prepare the perfect Cup ‘O Joe.

Feel free to jump around and to learn more as we learn more. If you think we’ve missed something obvious, please hit the Comments and let us know where we’ve missed the boat.

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